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Good Schools in Good Weather.- Southern Educational Notea. Every county superintendent and every member of a county or district school board in the moun tains and hill country of the South should know of the work of Supt. S. F. Venable, of Buncom be county, North Carolina. In this country, as in so many oth ers, the public schools had for aas!WBW<H(iffln«!ia«»n«Mm^\WKSt^a\smsiiB5iMa3aa«^*HMniranr!aawMinBaociuiiBai Cassava And The Pine Belt. Macon Telegraph. Origin of tbe Wedding-Ring. The wedding-ring is the subject i _ 1 * ‘ ' i vl A plant that produces a larger of quaint historical facts.and end- j amount of starch to the acre than laps superstitions. It any other vegetable or grain, and 1 bly chosen as the symbol of mar- at less cost, is a valuable posses- ■ riage more for convenience than ouch a plant is the cassava,anything else, which is attracting much atten- 1 ' tion in southern Georgia. The ! of power, and to carry special telegraph has urged its cultiva- 1 curative virtues with it. The old It is supposed to be a symbol of unbroken love and tion from time to time for months — i * * „«U4. v i. r i, i . , —r-- — —• good-luclc saying about it is,‘‘As years been taught in the late fall past, knowing it to be peculiarly i your wedding-ring wears, vour wVmn X 1 * 1C adapted to the sandy soil of the oares will wear away.” The an- piney woods belt of southern ' Georgia, - Harness, - Saddlery. Full line Agricultural Implements. BEST GOODS. CLOSEST PBICES. bad and the little children cannot attend without exposure and dan ger to health,. Two summers ago Supt. Venable worked out a plan for what he calls “duplicate grad ed schools” and induced a num ber of the districts to give it a trial. The children were classified in eight grades,each grade represent ing the work of a school year. About the first of June the schools were opened for children of the first, second, third and fourth grades, which included all the children from 9ix to ten years old, and the records show that the average attendance daily of the children of these four grades was as large as the average daily at tendance of all children of all grades the year before. After four months, children of the higher grades were admitted. In. some instances the first, second and third grades were discontinued; in others additional teachers were employed and children of all grades were taught the next four months. In other cases smaller schools were combined in central schools. So satisfactory were the results that the majority of the schools in this county have now adopted the plan. The attendance of the small children, on account of good weather in the summer and fall, has doubled and some of the teachers reported last summer that every child in their district from six to ten year3 old was i n school. The progress made by the children was surprising to the parents and children, and was made possible because of the few grades to be taught. These schools will run from eight to nine months this year. The plan is economical, and has many ad vantages which make it worthy of caveful consideration. Don’t Start Wrong. Don’t start the summer with a lingering cough or cold. We all know what a “summer cold” is. It’s the hardest kind to cure. Of ten it “hangs on” through the en tire season. Take it in hand right now. A few doses of Ono Minute Gough Cure will set you right. Sure cifre for coughs, colds, croup, grip, bronchitis, all throat and lung troubles. Abso lutely safe. Acts at once. Chil dren like it. “One Minute Cough Cure is the best cough medicine I ever used,” says J. H. Bowles. Groveton, N. H. “I never found anything else that acted so safely and quickly.” Holtzclaw’s Drug store. Engineering estimates that the population of the United States and its dependencies now exceeds 84.000. 000 inhabitants. The Philippines contain more than 7.000. 000 inhabitants, Porto Rico has 958,000, Hawaii 154,000, and Alaska, 68,592. China stands first in population, the British Empire second, Russia third and the United States fourth. Alabama, Mississippi and Florida. In an article on the subject in the Cosmopolitan, the interesting fact is stated that in its original home in tropical lands the skin of the cassava root is po'isonou3— a factor eliminated by exposure to the air and by cooking—but that when transplanted to the. West Indies and Florida this trouble some element entirely disappear ed, showing that the true home of the perfected plant is in the southern pine belt mentioned above. According to Prof. H. E. Stock- bridge of the United States Flori da Experiment Station, the aver age yield of cassava per acre is the large one of eight tons of roots. This cheap product not only pro duces 72 per cent, of starch, but is eaten greedily by cattle, sheep and hogs. Results have showu that feed of cassava and pea-vine hay is superior to feed of sweet potatoes aud bea-vine hay, shelled corn and pea-vine hay, and is even superior to feed of corn-meal and pea-vine hay. Actual experiments are said to have shown that cas sava will produce beef “at a cost of one and one-tenth cents per pound, while pork may be brought to the block, when fattened on cassava, at a total cost of but one cent per pound.” In our pine belt oassava must be propagated by the stalk, or cane, as in the case of sugar cane, and though it withstands drouth well, it is sensitive to frost. It thrives better if fertilized, but moderate applications are suffi cient. Experiments at the Florida station showed best results from an application of sixty-two and one- half pounds of acid phosphate, 150 pounds of cotton seed meal, and thirty-seven aud one-half pounds of muriate of potash, per acre. Recent tests made at Jackson ville by agents of the starch trust showed that cassava starch at four and one-half cents per pound “exceeded in value by six to one, for plain and fancy laundry pur poses, the finest starch made from wheat.” As the wheat starch costs six cents a pound, this would give the cassava product “an ad vantage over the other of about eight to one.” • It is suggested that the “slab- pile” now burning day and night at all the sawmills in the pine belt “would furnish costless fuel supply to a fair-sized cassava starch mill, thus eliminating one of the prime factors of cost in starch-making.” Undoubtedly the future of cassava in the pine belt is a bright one, for the climate the soil, and every other advant age combine with the plat.it itself to invite the production at small expense of a very valuable article of commerce. cients,“Pliny among the rest, be lieved that a deiicate nerve ran di rectly from the “ring-finger” to the heart, and that the ring plac ed on that finger was very closely connected with the heart. In ear ly Christian marriages the bride groom put the ring Srst on the bride’s thumb, then on the first finger, then on the second, and, last of all, on the third, saying as he did: ‘‘In the name of the Fath- and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.” The thumb and first two fingers represented the Trinity, the' next finger was the one the ring was left on, to. show that, next to God, a woman’s du ty was to her husbaud.—May La dies’ Home Journal. The children of to-day will be our men and women of to-morrow. Their opportunity for gaining knowledge is fast fleeting. Once it is gone, it will be gone forever. They can’t wait. What we do for them must be done quickly. The hope of Virginia rests and must rest upon the education of her young people, says the Fred ericksburg, Va., Free Lauce. Ed ucation is the only means of ele vating and broadening the indi vidual. The constant elevating of the individual through the pro- sess of education is the only means by which we can hope to expand and elevate the business and social interests of our state. The day has passed when to sim ply know something about the three R’s” will suffice. The world is moving rapidly. Times are constantly changing ancf with these changes come increasing demands for knowledge. Neglect the education of the young to-day and we seriously handicap them for the life to-morrow.—Southern Education Notes. Wo go on building mills, and instead of placing our young men in the best positions in them we are compelled to send to northern states for competent overseers, su perintendents and designers. This fact alone shows that industrial education is the foundation of in dustrial greatness. A H0ME-MKE H0TOli. HAVING LEASED THE Mulberry St., MACON, GA., Nest to Academy of Music, It is my purpose to conduct a hotel that will be home-like and satisfying to all guests. It is specially suitable for ladies or others visiting Maooh for a day or longer. Whooping Cough. A woman who has had experi ence with this disease, tells how to prevent any dangerous conse quences from it. She says: Our three children took whooping cough last summer, our baby boy being only three months old, and owing to our giving them Cham berlain’s Cough Remedy, they lost none of their plumpness and came out in much better health than other children whose parents did not use this remedy. Our old est little girl would call lustily for cough syrup between whoops Jessie Pinkey Hall, Springville Ala. This Remedy is for sale by all dealers in Perry, Warren & Lowe, Byron. to We Strive to Please. George S. Riley. The nut cracking industry St. Louis gives employment over 1,500 people. The nut crack ors are driven.by electricty, each nut, being feed individually into til crusher, i After the shells are cracked the nuts are winnowed by an air, blast and the meat picked from the crushed shells by hand. Tbe Children Cannot Wait. 463-465 Third St, Harness Repairs a speciality. MACON, CFCRG The Hope of the South. It is no use to hide the fact, the hope of the south lies in the white boy who is determined to be use ful and is willing to work hard that ho may be, says the Tennes see Mountain Herald. There are many who are studying Latin and Greek and fitting to be lawyers, doctors and ministers, but there is no great demand for them. There is a never ending demand for young men who can do some thing and superintend common labor while this labor does what clear brains plan and oversee. The day has passed when a man with a diploma from some small college can win his way carte blanche. It has been found’that there is culture in gardening as well as in Greek, in a lathe as well as in literature, in the hand ling of a plow as well as in the handling of a pen. Want Others to Know. “I have used DeWitt’s Little Early Risers for constipation and torpid liver and they are all right. I am glad to indorse them for I think when we find a good thing we ought to let others know it, “ writes Alfred Heinze, Quincy, 111. They never gripe or distress. Sure, safe pills. Holtzclaw’s Drugstore. At G-reatly Reduced Prices. Fifty new Upright Pianos will oiose out at greatly reduced prices within the. next few ‘ike weeks. Among them such celebrated makes as Stein way, Solimer & Co,, Krauich & Bach, Sfcultz & Bauer, Bush & Gests, Lester and Royal. Call at once and Beoure one of these bargains F. A. GUTTENGERGER & CO., 452 Second st., Macon, Ga. of Thomas E. Watson is under contract to write an up-to-date history of the United States, and is now engaged in getting the ma terial together for the purpose of entering upon the task early this summer. The histpry is designed for the use in the public schools of the country as well as for gen eral reading, and the style of Mr Watson as an author is such as to make it certain that the vol ume will be eagerly welcomed. This signature is on every box of tbo genuine v Laxative Bromo-Quiaine Tablets the iemedy^that j5urea_n_col<l in one doy The Ga. Poultry Herald. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE STATE ASSOCIATION. Subscription Price 50c. a Year. -ADDRESS- GA. POULTRY HERALD, PERRY GEORGIA. The Herald FREE one year to every Home Journal subscriber who pays ft 1.50 strictly in advance. as represented. HICC i gloss eutte,, iHSAI is awt in .dvnnco with order. Roods wholesale Price Lists lot Liquors end Cigara. IWpontlble agents WWtfldJ wder y Tn tr.Ts. EOSTIIXEIVB DISXIUIid'A'LNQ CUr~»ept. 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